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All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. things are true or false in themselves. truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. an error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

-Robert Green Ingersoll

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All The Martyrs In The History Of

Robert Green Ingersoll

All the martyrs in the history of the world are not sufficient to establish the correctness of an opinion. martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, - never the correctness of his thought. things are true or false in themselves. truth cannot be affected by opinions; it cannot be changed, established, or affected by martyrdom. an error cannot be believed sincerely enough to make it a truth.

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Martyrdom, as a rule, establishes the sincerity of the martyr, never the correctness of his thought. things are true or false in themselves.

Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. error is neither mind nor one of mind's faculties. error is the contradiction of truth. error is a belief without understanding. error is unreal because untrue. it is that which stemma to be and is not. if error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity -namely, erroneous truth. thus we should continue to lose the standard of truth.

Sincerity is not a test of truth. we must not make this mistake: he must be right; he's so sincere. because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. we can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. but there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.

The more sincerity is developed, the greater share of truth you will have. and however much sincerity a person may have, there is always a gap to fill, for we live in the midst of falsehood, and we are always apt to be carried away by this world of falsehood. therefore we must never think we are sincere enough, and we must always be on our guard against influences which may carry us away from that sincerity which is the bridge between ourselves and our ideal. no study, no meditation is more helpful than sincerity itself.

Welcome to fight club. the first rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club. the second rule of fight club is: you do not talk about fight club! third rule of fight club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. no shirt, no shoes, no weapons. seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. and the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at fight club, you have to fight.

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